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Mimosa hostilis natural dye for extraction?

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It may be good. It certainly used to be good. Nowadays we can't be so sure. Harvesting MHRB has become something of an ecological catastrophe in places. All the mature trees have gone and the younger ones may have been harvested sub-optimally. We all have a responsibility here.

If you're looking at extracting, it would be good if you were also be looking at cultivation; that's an important element of what the Nexus is about and there's already plenty of information about this on the forum. It's your call.

All that said, it's still better to extract your own than purchase material off some dodgy profiteer on the darkweb.

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Bye bye MHRB sourcing talk, we will remember you

An old thread with plenty of creative suggestions
 
Couldn't agree more with you mate, I'm new to the site and I'm just learning to navigate....
When do I get to access the other parts of the site?
And I'm very interested in the cultivation , I do the odd bit of my own herb 😉
As for the plants themselves are they house plants? Garden plants? Or should I do them hydroponic?
Thanks buddy
 
You should be able to read most threads straight away, although my experience as a long-term member of course confounds this insight for me. The ability to post in the rest of the forum depends upon your getting promoted to full membership. Threads about how this happens are but a short search away. Suffice to say, a demonstration of self-directed investigation and a good attitude helps greatly towards this end.

The cultivation method very much depends on the plant involved. Some acacias will grow in the UK, as will phalaris grasses. Phalaris grasses could well be amenable to a hydroponic approach, species like Desmanthus would probably be better in soil - now there's a question: do nitrogen-fixing plants perform well if grown aeroponically?

Have fun, stay safe, and good luck with your endeavours!
 
Any plant can do well if not better hydroponically/aeroponically provieded they are given the right nutes.
Being a hobby grower I know that you can give any plant what it needs in deep water.
For example nitrogen fixing plants....
A cannabis plant once flowered is considered finished and dead but a lot of people don't know that is you leave the scraggly pop corn buds on there and you start feeding that same plant high nitrogen and revert the lighting schedule back to vegative hours that same cannabis plant will regenerate and can be flowered over and over again. Preferably after a forghtnight or more veg.
I've been looking into desmanthus. I will be sure to let you know when my project starts. 😁👍
I've also grown salvia in a bubbler dwc bucket in the past.
Nathan
 
By nitrogen-fixing plants I mean those that have root nodules containing bacteria capable of taking nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and turning it into ammonia (and subsequently nitrate) such that the plants are supplied with their nitrogen requirements.

Some of the Cannabaceae are thus endowed but I didn't think Cannabis sativa was among them.

Cool trick with your plants there, though! Looking forward to hear more of your gardening expertise.
 
downwardsfromzero said:
By nitrogen-fixing plants I mean those that have root nodules containing bacteria capable of taking nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and turning it into ammonia (and subsequently nitrate) such that the plants are supplied with their nitrogen requirements.

Some of the Cannabaceae are thus endowed but I didn't think Cannabis sativa was among them.

Cool trick with your plants there, though! Looking forward to hear more of your gardening expertise.

What you have just explained above I have never heard of before And I will do some reading on it .
As for the regeneration of cannabis plants (I only practice this once per plant) reason being after that yields become smaller and the cannabinoid content becomes weaker..... Thought I would add that in in case anyone is interested
 
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